Child&#39;s music rack



Feb. s, 1924.

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61H01 new 25 ledge or shelf of a piano. Fig. 2 is a front bers of the clip to enfold the shelf between srares OFFICE.

LULU TEETER SMITH, OF VJATERLOO, IOWA.

CHILDS MUSIC RACK.

Application led December 1, 1922. Serial No. 604,352.

To au whom t may concern.' nevertheless not interfering with the proper Be it known that I, LULU Tnnrnu SMITH, use of the keys. a citizen of the United States of America, The device thus far described is complete and a resident of l/Vaterloo, Blackhawk and operative forthe purpose of being County, iowa, have invented certain new mounted removably upon the usual music and useful Improvements in Childrens shelf or other projection of a pia-no for sup- Music Racks, of which the following is a porting upon its loop l--2 a music-book or. specification. sheet 14 where the latter will be located My invention relates to improvements in horizontally opposite the eyes of a child for music-racks, and the object of my improveclose and convenient reading withouty disment is to supply particularly for use by comfort. children a device of this nature, simple in l have shown, in combination with the construction, inexpensive, and adapted to device, a soft and flexible lining 8, which be releasably mounted on a shelf or projecmay be made of any suitable material, such 15 tion, such as the book or music-holding shelf as felt, for lining the inner surfaces of the Ga of a piano, from which the device may declip members 4-6 to prevent abrasion or inpend to support a book or sheet-music at a jury to the varnish or finish of the supportlower level where it will be located more ing shelf l0. rl`he rectangular strip 8` may conveniently for a child to use. have its upper end folded over tubularly at This object has been accomplished by the 9 about the alined terminal parts 7 secured 70 means which are hereinafter described and by stitching or otherwise, to depend thereclaimed, and which areJ illustrated in the from as shown in Fig. 2. As shown in Fig. accompanying drawings, in which F ig. l is 3, when said clip is pushed over the shelf a view of this device as mounted upon a l0, the strip 8 is drawn between the memelevation on a larger scale, of the device, desaid members. The abutted ends of the termounted. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the minals 7 may be soldered or welded todevice mounted on a piano shelf and supgether if desired. porting a book or piece of sheet music. It is to be understood that slight changes My improved childs music rack is con in the described structures may be effected S0 structed from a single piece of elastic rod without departing from this invention and which is medially bent or shaped into an the scope of its protection. l elongated approximately horizontal loop of Attention is also called to the peculiar upwhich the opposite longitudinal parts or wardly bowed shape of the reaches l and 2 reaches l and 2 are slightly bowedupwardof the forward loop, said reaches thus pre- S5 ly. The'end parts 3 are bent convergingly, venting escape of the book or sheet 14, but angularly, and obliquely upwardly to the the bowing of these parts is not of enough rear then bent forwardly, side by side at 4, extent to prevent free turning of the leaves. then recurved at 5 to provide the rearwardly Having described my invention, what I 40 directed parts 6, the parts 6 being bent di-=` claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 90 vergingly and having their terminations 7 Patent, is: then bent toward each other in alinement to l. A childs music rack, consisting of a supply the closed triangular loop which is single elastic rod medially bent into a subsubstantially parallel with the parts 4 understantially horizontal elongated loop the forneath, and thus providing a resilient clip ward longitudinal reach of which is slightly 95 which may be releasably mounted on the bowed upwardly to serve as a front stop for shelf 10 of the hinged front panel 11 of the music sheets, end parts of the rod being upper part of the piano 12. This positions angularly projected from said loop in one the loop 1-2 slightly above the rear part of direction slopingly upwardly with their terthe keyboard 13, as shown in Fig. l, and minals recurved upon themselves with ex- 10U ma nid tremities in alinenient to Clips.

2. A ehilds music rack, comprising an elastic rod niedially bent into an elongated 5 horizontal loop having angularly directed upwardly sloped end members, said members shaped into a U-shaped resilient clip whose upper part is formed into a closed provide resilient loop With a transverse terminal reach, and a iieXible strip pad mounted at one end 10 dependingly upon said terminal reach to line the inside of the U-shaped clip.

Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 30th day of October, 1922.

LULU TEETER SMITH. 

